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Senecio mattirolii is a small perennial herb in the daisy family, native to high-altitude stony slopes of the Ruwenzori Mountains in Uganda and the DR Congo. It is unusual for Senecio in having purple flowers, and it is rarely grown in gardens, so care advice is based on its alpine habitat.
Senecio mattirolii is a perennial herb of the family Asteraceae endemic to altitudes between 3,600–4,500 meters (11,800–14,800 ft)
on the slopes of the mountains of the Ruwenzori Mountains in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and an atypical species of the genus Senecio since it has purple flowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Senecio mattirolii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
